Friday, September 07, 2012

David Alan Harvey posted on Burn Magazine today that he is taking a camper/van and heading west... a 4-6 week free-form trip. I would love to do that! How can I make it happen? What would I do with the cats... they would be miserable on the road. I hate camping so I might have to do it in a car. Something to think about...

Thursday, September 06, 2012

Stacks of books to be taken to the donation box at the library. It's a revealing process to see what books you purchased throughout the years. I bought a lot of self-help books. Why do we always believe the media hype that we're lacking in some area?

I no longer buy hard cover books and I never buy self-help books. I'm not perfect, but I've won the battles that I had to face. Maybe I'll write a book. ;-)

Wednesday, September 05, 2012

As I was in one of my trying-to-get-back-to-sleep periods last night, this chair popped into my head. It was sitting in a corner of my bedroom and over the years had been piled high with extra blankets and pillows. There can be things/situations right in front of us every day that do not register. I have a fear of becoming a hoarder, so today I stored the pillows and blankets in proper places and moved the chair to a different (mostly empty) room until I decide what to do with it.

Saturday, September 01, 2012

It seems like only yesterday I was saying goodbye to July. August was a blur and here we are again... making promises for September. It would feel more like the 'unofficial end of summer' if the temperatures would back off a bit. Ninety degrees today... I'm ready for some seventies.

I spent some time last evening going through boxes of old photos. I began with a quest to find pictures from a particular vacation in the mid-70s. No dates or notes on any of them (another plus for digital). I found a few that I was sure were taken on that trip, but many, many more were too generic to deduce a when or where. Mountains? Could have been almost anywhere. I know one thing for sure, I had no business taking photos back then. I knew nothing about composition, light, focus! And I'm sure my camera was a basic point-and-shoot. Very embarrassing.

I also think I've been getting sloppy with my shooting of late. Part of it I blame on Instagram. My phone camera takes lousy photos and yet I keep opening that program and taking a pic! I must stop... none of them are worthy of posting. So there's another goal for September!